Vincent Honigmann

Vincent Honigmann (12 October 1782-2 June 1846) was a general of Prussia.

Biography
Vincent Honigmann was born on 12 October 1782 in Magdeburg, Prussia to a family of Protestant Germans. He attended a military school from 1800 to 1803, and he was made the colonel of a regiment of musketeers in the Prussian Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Honigmann rose to become a general, and he was given command of a Prussian army sent to invade France through Alsace-Lorraine in 1814. At the Battle of Ergersheim in 1814, he was victorious over Edmond Lemery's French army, and Lemery was killed at the end of the battle by musket fire. Honigmann's army pushed through Alsace-Lorraine into central France, and he later besieged the capital of Paris. After the end of the wars with Napoleon I, Honigmann became the instructor of a military school in Posen (Poznan, Poland), and he died in 1846 at the age of 64.